On Florida Holidays, the Disneyland Crowd Calendar and Some Fun Facts

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It’s not a secret that I want my travel diary to be visited by as many people as possible. I’m thankful to all my friends who read it, but I don’t rely solely on this kind of traffic. I want my travel articles to be found by people using search engines to plan their trips. This is why I pay attention to the topics I choose for my stories. As I was doing keyword research for a new travel topic, I stumbled across a term that made me smile: Disneyland crowd calendar. I already knew the secrets of a Disney Cast member, but I hadn’t imagined someone who wasn’t involved in any of the Disney University’s programs would need to bother with doing anything else than showing up and enjoying the visit.

Thinking back to my one and only visit to a theme park, I recalled the endless minutes I had to do the line for each ride. The place was Aquapark Kusadasi, in Turkey. It was my first visit to a theme park, as I’ve never been a fan of crazy rides and breathtaking experiences. There were countless rides to try, but also huge crowds of fun-seekers and adrenaline junkies. There was a huge amount of traffic to all of those rides, so there was nothing one could have enjoyed without doing the line.

I was terrified by the prospect of throwing myself down a U-shaped water slide. I was on the verge of giving up, but since I’d spent half an hour of my life to get to the top, I did it anyway. I was terrified as I thought I was going to fly into the sky, outside the area of the ride. The sunk cost fallacy proved to be true, although I usually let go of things without being sorry for my investments of time and energy. Anyway, this made me realize that I should have researched my adventure a bit better. Perhaps the Disneyland crowd tracker isn’t the only tool that helps picking a less busy period for visiting the park. Water parks should have their own schedules and calendars, too, just like Disneyland traffic has.

Is It Packed, Disneyland?

Disneyland is a huge realm. Millions of people want to visit these theme parks. As there are only 11 Walt Disney parks in the world, you can imagine the traffic and the waiting times, especially during summer holidays. The Disneyland crowd calendar starts to make sense, if you don’t want to travel to Florida only to wait in line for the most popular attractions in the park.

I named Florida in the above example, as it is an illustration of a big traveling effort, since to me this is a far away destination. However, even if I chose Disneyland Paris, which is only a three hour flight from here, I’d still want to avoid those endless lines. As a matter of fact, if I were to travel to Florida, I’d skip amusement parks altogether, as I’d rather see South Beach and swim with the dolphins or visit the Kennedy Space Center to feel like an astronaut for one day. Even if I’d travel to Oregon, I wouldn’t include any amusement park among the best things to do in Portland, for instance.

If you plan to visit Disneyland, you should consider consulting some websites that monitor the crowds and the line times. I found one such Disneyland crowd tracker monitor for 2019 here. The linked tracker is for Disneyland Paris, but you can consult the same website for other parks in the world.

Why a Disneyland Crowd Calendar Is a Must (with Hard Facts and Figures)

Anyway, now I understand the sense of consulting a crowd calendar before planning your vacation in such a popular park. I even created this chart, as a result of reading some unusual statistics done on the visitors of Disney Parks. Can you believe it that the visitors of these parks eat over 10 million burgers every year and drink over 50 million bottles of Coke? Funny enough, not one single Pepsi bottle gets sold here. The next time you ask yourself “Is it packed Disneyland?“, remember to check their official website, in order to find out which is the best time to go to Disneyland. There are also other websites that publish such calendars, some of them making them available only to paying readers. While I don’t think you should pay to get that information, I agree that buying your ticket for the least busy day of the week will help you have more fun.

It surely takes a lot of people to eat and drink all these quantities. If you want to embed my infographic on your website, here’s the code you need to copy and paste into your article:

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What do you think about theme parks? Would you travel across the globe to visit one of the Walt Disney parks? Which one would you recommend me to go to? Have you ever used the Disneyland crowd calendar?

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Violeta writes for people who want to design, research and plan their own travel experiences. After two decades of working in advertising and marketing, she decided to pursue her two passions, to travel the world and to write about it. Since 2012, she authors and administrates a network of travel blogs.

Haha this is such a funny topic for me. I grew up only a couple hours from Disney in Florida, and the thought of a crowd calendar never even crossed my mind. I definitely wouldn’t fly to go to an amusement park, but I know many families that will and do every single year.

This is funny, indeed! I came across the idea of such a calendar while searching for facts for my infographic. Funny enough, someone told me I should visit Disneyland, and I replied I didn’t see the point, as I don’t have children. The person said it’s also for adults 🙂

Those are HUGE amounts of food being eaten in Disney. Not surprising I guess but I hope that Disney turns eco-friendly so they don’t also make record amounts of non-recyclable trash. Really funny to learn that 4% of all amateur photos are taken here.

Yes, these were some surprising and funny facts about Disneyland. This makes me think about visiting one of their parks. Perhaps the one in Paris would be best, as it’s the closest to where I live. I don’t know if it also has a method of checking the crowds, but I’ll see if I can find one 🙂

I wish I had researched Disneyland crowd calendar before I went to the one in Florida in 2015. We ended up standing in queues and it did not help that it was peak summer. Some interesting facts you have got.

This certainly looks like a super useful thing to write about and I am sure you will find many visitors thanking you for this 🙂 I wish someone could do this for all theme parks of the world…wouldn’t that be wonderful 🙂

Some of those numbers are outrageous! I actually drove straight past Disneyland when I was in Florida but I was all alone and parks are not as much fun alone. The idea of going appeals to me but like you said it is so far and I could not imagine travelling that far either.

Yes, such places aren’t be best for vegans, that’s for sure. They should change their policy for 2017 to offer some more vegan and vegetarian options, but I doubt this is going to happen, unfortunately.

I live in Florida and Orlando is my next home on weekends. I love going to Universal Studios more than Disney because of Harry Potter rides. Let me know if you need any help while traveling to Florida!

There are some software tools that enable you to see how many monthly searches a certain keyword has, and how difficult it would be to rank for each of them. Of course, they are all based on estimations, so you may never get to see that level of traffic. Ahrefs.com is one of these tools. It has a 14-day free trial. I’ve signed up for it yesterday and I like it very much. However, this one is quite expensive, so I won’t continue after that. There’s also the free Google AdWords research tool, but it provides accurate estimates only to those who have active campaigns with them.

Back to our crowded Disneyland parks topic, I might go to the Paris one some day. I’m not sure yet, though, as I hate long lines and hoards of tourists pushing you in all directions.

Those statistics are incredible. I think I had a good experience the time I visited Disneyland Paris. There were a lot of visitors (as always), but still I was able to go on the rides without being hours on a queue. Guess I was lucky!

Always wanted to visit this. Disney is one of those people known and loved all over the world and kids know about Disneyland even in the remotest parts of the world. These statistics don’t surprise me at all.

It is years since I last visited a theme park. But you are right, I remember it to be quite crowded. Nowadays I usually only come across crowd plans and calendars when using the public transport here in Stockholm or when we are going to IKEA. 😛